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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
Well, my theory is that day/night jobs [maintenance engineer; all-day cook; CD salesperson; feather tickler; sanitation engineer; used-car salesperson; door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson; garage mechanic; book clerk; window-washer; chimney sweep; etc.] take precedence in sitting all day clacking away at the computer [clickety-clack, clickety-clack] writing a 1,000 page novel.
...add to that the screaming baby.....
But maybe....just maybe....there's an independently wealthy Indie author who just might write that 1000-plus page novel. Maybe.
Don
(I had one of those 'career options' listed above)   |
Two of them here.
If the story requires 1000 pages and the author believes in it enough to spend three to five years worth of evenings, he can. (It has happened in the pre-ebook era.)
If the end result is good enough, the one book could even make his/her rep.
But realistically it is hard to get to 500k words without reaching at least a couple of "soft" breakpoints. Zelazny managed to find five in the first Amber set and Busby found two in RISSA KERGUELEN. So if financial considerations have any kind of bearing, most meganovels get delivered as trilogies and omnibusses, whether indie or trad-pubbed.